Table 4.

Ethnic-specific gradients in inflammation, metabolic risk and cardiovascular subscales by education, based on data for adults aged 20 or more years from the National Health and Nutrition Survey, 1988–1994^*

	Inflammation		Metabolic Risk		Cardiovascular Risk
	0	1+	0	1+	0	1+
Whites – N’s	4,728	1,507	2,317	4,212	4,517	2,003
	%	%	%	%	%	%
Grade School	80.6	19.4	24.2	75.8	77.3	22.7
Some HS	78.9	21.1	22.8	77.2	71.9	28.1
HS	77.4	22.6	26.3	73.7	77.0	23.0
Some College	79.5	20.5	31.3	68.7	77.2	22.9
>=College	83.2	16.8	36.0	64.0	80.9	19.1
P-Value	0.2		<0.0001		0.005
Blacks- N’s	2,662	1,268	2,037	2,188	2,900	1,318
	%	%	%	%	%	%
Grade School	66.0	34.0	24.2	75.8	60.9	39.1
Some HS	67.0	33.0	26.7	73.3	63.4	36.6
HS	65.1	34.9	33.9	66.1	66.8	33.3
Some College	67.5	32.5	32.1	67.9	72.7	27.3
>=College	66.6	33.4	37.1	62.9	71.5	28.5
P-Value	0.9		<0.0001		<0.0001
Mexicans – N’s	3,069	959	1,525	2,676	3,233	959
	%	%	%	%	%	%
Grade School	73.0	27.1	14.2	85.8	74.5	25.6
Some HS	74.2	25.8	18.5	81.5	77.1	22.9
HS	76.3	23.8	18.5	81.5	72.7	27.4
Some College	82.3	17.7	21.6	78.4	70.5	29.5
>=College	87.7	12.3	23.4	76.6	77.2	22.8
P-Value	0.001		<0.0001		0.08
Others - N’s	465	130	260	362	486	136
	%	%	%	%	%	%
Grade School	80.6	19.4	14.2	85.8	76.0	24.0
Some HS	67.2	32.8	25.4	74.6	83.3	16.7
HS	76.8	23.2	23.8	76.3	77.6	22.5
Some College	84.9	15.1	27.2	72.8	88.8	11.2
>=College	75.8	24.2	31.0	69.0	82.1	18.0
P-Value	0.9		0.006		0.1

^*All values are weighted by NHANES mobile examination center weight: WTPFEX6 and age standardized to the 2000 US Census population. P-values for trend were determined based on regression models that considered education as an ordinal variable in the model.